About Strikeforce

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Strikeforce is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotionwhich, on Friday, March 10, 2006, made history with its “Shamrock vs.Gracie” event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card inCalifornia state history. The star-studded extravaganza, which pittedlegendary champion Frank Shamrock against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blackbelt Cesar Gracie at San Jose’s HP Pavilion, played host to a sold-out,record crowd of 18,265. Since 1995, Strikeforce has been the exclusiveprovider of martial arts programming for ESPN and, after 12 years ofsuccess as a leading, world championship kickboxing promotion, thecompany unveiled its mixed martial arts series with “Shamrock vs.Gracie.” Since then, it has co-produced the first SHOWTIME PPV mixedmartial arts event in history with its world championship “Shamrock vs.Baroni” card on June 22, 2007 followed by the first-ever mixed martialarts event at the world-famous Playboy Mansion on September 29, 2007.On April 12th of this year, Strikeforce launched the first-ever 52 weekMMA series on one of the four major television networks in The U.S. NBC.